Among the main promises are
clean and transparent management, judicial commission for Sikh shrines,
Guru Teg Bahadur University for professional education, free education
for girls and books to boys securing over 75 per cent marks in Class X
and Rs 51,000 as marriage allowance for the daughters of DSGMC
employees.

Focusing mainly
on the youth, the manifesto promises establishment of Guru Angad Dev
sports institute, five academies for Sikh students to help them prepare
for medical, engineering and administrative examinations and a placement
cell.

The party has also
assured of replacing books of private publishers with that of the NCERT
in DSGMC-run schools and 50 per cent concession in fee for one child in
cases where two or more siblings were studying in same school.

SAD
(Badal) president Sukhbir Badal, accompanied by several senior leaders,
released the 24-page election manifesto written in Punjabi language.

The
manifesto also speaks about setting up a legal council for helping the
victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the community members uprooted
from Afghanistan and Pakistan. It promises similar councils in the
fields of education, health and finance.

Sukhbir
said the party would establish a ‘Sikh Heritage Centre’ (a multi-media
museum) in Delhi and facilitate free bus service to the community
members for visiting historic gurdwaras in Delhi. The manifesto promises
celebration of gurpurbs and other historic days as per the Nanakshahi
calendar.

The party also
assured of canceling the “unlawful” agreement signed by the incumbent
committee with a private group to run Guru Harkishan Hospital at Bala
Sahib gurdwara. The party also promised a ‘Senior Sikh Citizen Card’ to
the community members above 60 years of age to provide them free or
on-concession health services and other facilities.